Library examples
There are some small examples in the package documentation.
Mentions
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Help
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torrent
torrent download
Downloads torrents from the command-line.
$ torrent download 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:KRWPCX3SJUM4IMM4YF5RPHL6ANPYTQPU'
... lots of jibber jabber ...
downloading "ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso": 1.0 GB/1.0 GB, 1989/1992 pieces completed (1 partial)
2015/04/01 02:08:20 main.go:137: downloaded ALL the torrents
$ md5sum ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
1b305d585b1918f297164add46784116 ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
$ echo such amaze
wow
torrent metainfo magnet
Creates a magnet link from a torrent file. Note the extracted trackers, display name, and info hash.
$ torrent metainfo testdata/debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso.torrent magnet
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4090c3c2a394a49974dfbbf2ce7ad0db3cdeddd7&dn=debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbttracker.debian.org%3A6969%2Fannounce
See torrent metainfo --help for other metainfo related commands.
torrentfs
torrentfs mounts a FUSE filesystem at -mountDir. The contents are the torrents described by the torrent files and magnet links at -metainfoDir. Data for read requests is fetched only as required from the torrent network, and stored at -downloadDir.
$ mkdir mnt torrents
$ torrentfs -mountDir=mnt -metainfoDir=torrents &
$ cd torrents
$ wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.2/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
$ cd ..
$ ls mnt
ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
$ pv mnt/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso | md5sum
996MB 0:04:40 [3.55MB/s] [========================================>] 100%
1b305d585b1918f297164add46784116 -